Newsletter

Posted May 4, 2011 11:02 pm

Texas and region

HOUSTON

Air flights to and from Houston were disrupted for a period after a computer glitch in a Houston air traffic control center.

Federal Aviation Administration spokesman Lynn Lunsford said the error arose in computer software about 4:40 p.m. Wednesday and delayed flights awaiting departure to and from Houston’s two main airports by about an hour. He said flights already approaching Houston landed without incident.

Lunsford said normal flight operations resumed after the computer problem was resolved about 6 p.m. Wednesday.

BRIEFLY ...

● HOUSTON — The Texas Court of Criminal Appeals upheld the death sentence Wednesday of a man convicted of strangling a 5-year-old girl taken from an El Paso store and then burning her body. David Santiago Renteria, 41, already was a convicted sex offender on probation when he was seen on a Wal-Mart security video leaving the store with Alexandra Flores.

● SAN ANTONIO — Louis Henry Stumberg, who co-founded the frozen Tex-Mex food pioneer Patio Foods with his father and brother in 1946, has died at the age of 87.

● AUSTIN — Texans waiting for final judgment in a criminal case would still be eligible to vote under legislation approved by the Texas House.

● AUSTIN — Military veterans who are totally disabled would get some help with their property tax bills under legislation approved by the Texas House.

● PLANO — A toppled crane boom blocked all northbound traffic on the Dallas North Tollway in western Plano for about 11/2 hours Wednesday.